Bank-check, &amp;c.



G. K. SCHMIDT. BANK CHECK, 6L0. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. 1916.

1,227,004. Patented May 22, 1917.

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To all whom it may concern: 7

a citizen of :the United States, residing. at

of .Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in of which the following is a specification.

This 'inveiitionrelatesto a money order, such as a bank check, adapted to be treated by cutting away portions of its body to leavevalue-indicating numerals exposed in close proximity to the cut edges, and arranged to collectively indicate the, amount for which the check is drawn, the treated check being unalterable, to raise itsvalue. r

The object of the invention is to provide a check of this character adapted to be drawn to represent large or small amountsexactly and treated to prevent raising, quiring any enlargement'of the check from the ordinary standard dimensions and without encroaching objectionably on the space devoted to the usual indicia printed and written on the check.

The invention is embodied in theimprove-' ments which I will now proceed to describe and claim. I

Of the accompanying drawings forming V p fully raised, because Fig. 3 represents a view of the back of the portion of the check shown by Fig. 2.

The same reference characters indicate the same .or similar parts in all the views.

A bank check a embodying my invention may be of the usual oblong form and may have the usual dimensions. In carrying out myinvention Iprint upon the left-hand end 001- I umns of value-designatingcharacters, pref-V portion of the body of'the check two erably numerals, said columns extending longitudinally of the check or substantially in the direction of itsupper and lower longitudinal edges and being spaced apart so that one column is adjacent to the upper edge and the other to the lower edge of the check, and room is afforded between the columns for written and printed indicia on both the front and back of the check.

As here shown the column adjacent to the Specification of Letters Patent.- Application filed'June 30,1916. SerialNoi 106,914.

in the county of Sulfolk and State.

Bank-Checks, -&c.,

represent dollars.

without reand the third to he accidentally torn 'ceeding ten thousand dollars, without re- Patented May 22, 1917.

lower edge of the check is composed of three rows Z), c, d, arranged in stepped formation, one end of the row I) overlapping the adjacent end of-the row 0, and the opposite end of the row 0. overlapping the adjacent end of therow d; The. value of the characters progressively decreases from the left to the right hand end of each row, and the check bears indicia indicating that said characters The column adjacent to the upper edge of the check, as here-shown, is composed of three rows bf, c, d, arranged in stepped formation like the rows 0, 0 d. The characters of therow Z) represent dollars, and those of the rowsc, d, represent cents.

In this example of the invention, the check is drawn for fifty-six. hundred and sixtyseven dollars-and fifty-nine cents.

After writing the check it is cutaway, as indicated by Fig. 2, to form steps on its longitudinal edges, six steps being formed in the example here given. In thelowe r column one step exposes .5000, the next 600, y In the upper column one step exposes 7.00, the next .50, and

the third .09.

The check thus treated cannot be success- .any value-raising change in the indicia written on the body of the check can only be correspondingly made on its stepped edges by adding sections of paper bearing numerals which were previously cutaway, a feat which cannot be accomplished without detection. As will be seen by Figs. 2 and 3, the described treatment does not leave the check with a narrow attenuated end portion liable away, the treated or stepped end portion of the check being so proportioned that its strength and durability are not materially impaired, and space is left'ontheback of the check for endorsement between thestepped edges, as shown by Fig. 3. j

The stepped formation'of the eolumns'and the characters forming the same in this em.- bodiment of the invention enable the check to be prepared to represent an amount ex- 105 any increase in the size of the check.

Having described my invention, I claimi 1. A money order, such as a bank check, having rows of value-designating characters forming stepped columns, said columns be- 11 quirin ing arranged adjacent to the upper and lower edges of ti e left-hand portion of the check, said columns being spaced apart to afford room between them for indicia of the check, the values of said characters in each row decreasing progressively from left to right, and the values in each roW being unlike those in the other rows, the arrangement of said rows being such that the check may be cut to remove characters from said columns so that thereafter the characters at the left ends of the rows collectively indicate the amount for Which the check is drawn.

2. A money order, such as a bank check, of oblong form, having a plurality of longitudinally extending rows forming stepped columns of value-designating characters, said columns being arranged respectively ad- Copies jacent to the upper and lower edges of the left-hand portion of the check and being spaced apart to afl ord room between them for indicia of the check,, the value-designating characters of each IOW indicating values unlike those in the other rows, and the values of said characters in each row decreasing progressively from left to right, the arrangement of said roWs being such that the check may be cut to remove characters from the left-hand ends of said rows so that the characters at the extreme left of the rows thereafter collectively indicate the amount for which the check is drawn.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

OECILIA K. SCHMIDT.

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Washington, D. 0. 

